U.S.-bound passengers prevented from boarding flights after Trump order

President Trump shows the executive order on immigration and the military on Friday.

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RobertWall

SusanCarey

Some U.S.-bound passengers have been prevented from boarding flights and several people were detained on arrival in New York in the wake of President Donald Trump’s order to ban entry for people from certain Muslim-majority countries.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Saturday said it filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court against the ban on behalf of two Iraqi men, Hameed Khalid Darweesh and Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, who were denied entry to the U.S. late Friday and detained at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport despite having visas issued before the order was signed. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Eleven people have been held because of Trump’s immigration order after arriving at JFK Airport, an airport official said midday Saturday.

Elsewhere, officials at Cairo airport in Egypt said seven U.S.-bound migrants—six from Iraq and one from Yemen—had been stopped from boarding an EgyptAir flight to New York, the Associated Press reported.

The officials said the seven migrants, escorted by officials from the United Nations refugee agency, were stopped from boarding the plane after authorities in Cairo contacted their counterparts in the U.S. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to brief the media.

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